Union County Veterans Remembrance Committee

Permanent Veteran Record

Gerald Eugene Landon

BranchArmy
RankStaff Sergeant
Conflict / EraWorld War II
Years of Service10/14/1942 – 11/27/1944
Date of Birth09/04/1922
Date of Death11/27/1944
HometownMillersburg, Holmes Co., OH, OH
AwardsPurple Heart
Burial LocationUNKNOWN
Monument PaverSection C
SourceNo DD-214 recorded in Union Co. Recorder's Office as of 10/26/2007;Ed Landon; G.W. Claar; Esther Carmany; National Archives; Ohio Historical Society; Application for Compensation | Ancestry - Find A Grave & Dept. of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File

Overseas service: Italy & France. School: UNKNOWN. serial # 35420456; listed on Holmes Co. casualty list; War Dept. files lists hometown as Holmes Co.; not in 1930 Federal Census for either Union Co. or all of Ohio; MHS confirms one page document on file listing Broadway listed in Union Co. School Annual, 1940 (basketball team picture); Application for Compensation lists residence as Millersburg, Homes County, OH Application for Compensation filed by Mrs. Naomi Lorene Mackey, claim #960116, dated 1/10/1949; DOW -- died of machine gun wound to the head received in line of duty, France died at Percy Hones Gen & Conv Hospital, Battle Creek, MI (Mrs. Mackey was with him at time of death); DOW/KIA

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